Password compromises at Cornell have shown a marked increase in the first quarter of 2025; the IT Security Office has helped our faculty recover more hacked accounts from January through April than for the entirety of 2024.

Depending on how a hacker steals your information, it can take the better part of a day for the ITSO to help you fix a compromised NetID.

This trend also reveals another important pattern: when it comes to hacked passwords, faculty accounts are high-value targets of these attacks, and are also more likely to have passwords stolen. Cornellians have gotten savvy to phishing attempts, so the absolute numbers remain small, but that just means that criminals are getting increasingly clever and persistent.  

Think to yourself; do you have access to research data or your students’ protected information like grades, home addresses, or other data regulated by FERPA? Can you make changes to your direct deposit online?  

Do you have a few minutes to adopt the gold standard of account security? 

If you answered yes to any of those questions, then make the switch from passwords to passkeys. Add Secure Connect one touch login to your account and shield it from attack. 

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